Previous events - Page 39
---credit-claudio-toledo-flickr.jpg?alt=listing)
First guest of the seminar series "Global Health Unpacked", Adam Fejerskov will discuss the Gates Foundation's promotion of technology-based development policies and question the power, legitimacy and accountability of this major player.
Lecture "A new era of medicine with induced pluripotent stem cells – iPS cells" and panel discussion "Implications of Stem Cell Therapy for Patients and Society" with Shinya Yamanaka, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
'Exploring and exploiting the constraints of local signaling', by Professor John D. Scott
Professor and Director Sylvia Richardson will receive the Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oslo. She will hold an open Lecture on A personal view of statistics as a tool for discovery in the health Sciences. Welcome!
Morten Schak Nielsen, of Copenhagen University, will give a lecture titled, 'Connexin 43 gap junctions at the nexus of cardiac activation'.
Tor Egil F?rland, Professor of History at the Department of Archaeology, conservation and history, University of Oslo, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The Lecture is open for everyone!
ESOP seminar. Gordon B. Dahl is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He will present a paper entitled "Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance", co-authored by Anne C. Gielen.
ESOP seminar. Swati Dhingra is an Assistant Professor at LSE. She will present a paper entitled "Piggy-back exporting, intermediation, and the gains from trade to small farmers in developing economies", co-authored by Silvana Tenreyro.
Dr. Roderic Guigò, coordinating the Bioinformatics and Genomics program of the Centre de Regualció Genòmica in Barcelona will present a lecture on his current research.
GIWeS is organizing a NORFACE WSF (Welfare State Futures) thematic workshop on inequality and welfare states.
Jeremy Greene, Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. The seminar is open for everyone!
Noah Smith is an economist and blogger at Bloomberg View. His blog, under the name “Noahpinion” is one of the most widely read blogs on the scholarly discipline of economics in the world, and he has become something close to a blog superstar in economics. Smith has a Phd in economics from the University of Michigan, and was an assistant professor of Finance at Stony Brook University, New York.
ESOP seminar. Botond K?szegi is a Professor at the Central European University. He will present a paper entitled "Browsing versus Studying Offers", co-authored by Paul Heidhues, and Johannes Johnen.
ESOP seminar. Erling Barth is a researcher at the Institute for Social Research and professor at the University of Oslo. He will present a paper entitled "Union Density, Productivity and Wages", co-authored by Alex Bryson and Harald Dale-Olsen.
ESOP seminar. Mark Bils is Hazel Fyfe Professor in Economics at the University of Rochester. He will present a paper entitled "Misallocation or Mismeasurement?", co-authored by Peter J. Klenow and Cian Ruane.
ESOP seminar. Wouter Dessein is the Eli Ginzberg Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School. He will present a paper entitled "Organizational Capital, Managerial Heterogeneity, and Firm Dynamics", co-authored by Andrea Prat.
Second in the Sven Furberg Seminar Series: Dr. Robin Andersson, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, will present the lecture, "Characterisation of regulatory activities and active chromatin architectures from transcription initiation events."
John Warner, Avalon Professor in the History of Medicine and Professor of American Studies and of History, Yale School of Medicine at Yale University, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium. The lecture is open for everyone.
ESOP seminar. Andreas Müller is an Associate professor at the University of Oslo. He will present a paper entitled "A theory of structural change that can fit the data", co-authored by Simon Alder and Timo Boppart.
.jpg?alt=listing)
Wendy Kline, Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine at Purdue University, is visiting the Science Stuides Colloquium Series. The Seminar is open for everyone!
She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1998. She is the author of several articles and two books: Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second Wave (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (University of California Press, 2001).
ESOP seminar. Volker Nocke is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. He will present a paper entitled "Multiproduct-Firm Oligopoly: An Aggregative Games Approach", co-authored by Nicolas Schutz.
.jpg?alt=listing)
Professor Steve Bova is a Professor and Group Leader at the Prostate Cancer Research Center, Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology, BioMediTech, University of Tampere and Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere University Hospital in Finland.
He will give a talk titled, 'Leveraging the evolutionary history of metastatic prostate cancer'.
Jaime Castro-Mondragòn is a PhD student in Bioinformatics. The title of his talk is, 'Identification of Transcription Factors related to mammalian promoters with distal functions'.
Alan Love is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. His research focuses on conceptual issues in biology.
ESOP seminar. Anna Tompsett is an Assistant Professor at Stockholm University. She will present a paper entitled "Community Participation in Decision-Making Evidence from an experiment in safe drinking water provision in Bangladesh", co-authored by Malgosia Madajewicz, and Ahasan Habib.